turboskanker 2020-12-21 23:42:15 ET my contribution to current-events memes using a photo i took a block from my apartment earlier today:

Drake 2020-12-22 12:47:32 ET I feel so bad for the devs.

turboskanker 2020-12-22 18:11:24 ET dude, me too. what a fucking dumpsterfire CDPR's management has created.

Drake 2020-12-23 10:00:12 ET Yeah, I'm just glad the outcry is getting some traction. It feels like social media is being more impactful as time moves on.

KiltedLunatic 2020-12-24 15:11:24 ET I snorted out loud. I'm also putting off buying for a bit until the bugs are more ironed out. May use it as an excuse for a new PC.

turboskanker 2020-12-24 23:52:30 ET i dunno man, there's a class-action lawsuit now, and save files over 8 megs (on all platforms including PC) are prone to corrupting. CDPR have said there's no way to fix the corrupted files, even if a future patch should be released. the game is fucked six ways from sunday. it's basically a roll of the dice if you can even complete the thing, and it doesn't matter what you play it on.

Drake 2020-12-26 11:20:45 ET Save files have been patched.

turboskanker 2020-12-26 13:19:35 ET hmm. i'll hold out my thoughts on that until i see said verdict from journalists who aren't CDPR's PR department. heh. especially considering in the last statement they issued on it, they said existing corrupted files couldn't be fixed.

turboskanker 2020-12-26 13:23:06 ET also either way i really wish the damn gaming industry would stop this pattern of releasing patently unfinished games and then expecting people who buy them to just wait it out. -_-

You Dont Know Jake 2020-12-26 20:05:44 ET I've played a lot of early access games, and actually really dig the model. That being said, it bugs me when AAA companies use it to release crap and charge AAA rates for it.

turboskanker 2020-12-26 23:19:03 ET early access is one thing because then you know what you're getting. i was solely referring to the latter, and when companies keep clearly using it as an excuse to push out crap, run out the back door with the money, and maybe fix it later.

Drake 2020-12-27 15:12:57 ET The devs really didn't want to push the game out but they were forced to but the big dudes upstairs. It happens and it sucks. I'm having a lot of fun in the game and the bugs haven't been that bad, for me. I did have some audio issues so I just pushed my sample rate up to 96 kHz and problem solved. I think the game needs some serious patches and is in a state like Pathfinder Kingmaker. Give it a year and some love and it will be rock solid. I'm sure mods are going to have a ton of QoL improvements. Hope they open it up like Skyrim.

turboskanker 2020-12-27 23:27:40 ET either way, i likely won't be playing it anytime soon. i don't plan on upgrading console-wise from my xbox one s for at least another year or 2, and i doubt they'll release a mac version on steam, but even people in the gaming industry seem to be going gaga over the m1 macs so who knows i guess. if they at least manage to make the baseline xbox one version look even as good as other games on the console (which the current version doesn't at all) i'd consider getting it then, cause conceptually the game definitely interests me. i do feel bad for the devs. quite frankly they should have just never announced the game as early as they did in the first place. oh well. as you said, i think giving it a year and coming back to it then sounds like the most reasonable scenario for me at this point.

Drake 2020-12-28 08:09:06 ET I don't think mac's will be able to run the game well at all without a serious GPU, so maybe some of the older models. Even some of the brand new 3000x GPUs are having a hard time with it and the new M1's aren't compatible with external GPUs. I hope it's something Apple changes with the second generation.

turboskanker 2020-12-28 16:05:41 ET i guess it also depends on how good the integrated graphics on apple silicon chips are, since iPhones still by far have the best graphics of mobile devices just with those processors alone. time will tell, i guess. i likely won't get an apple silicon mac to mess around with til apple releases a 16" macbook pro with one, since that's my current model and i'd rather not downsize my screen real estate. at any rate, yeah, it'd be nice if there's a solid version of the game myself and others can play on something by next year.

You Dont Know Jake 2020-12-28 16:14:21 ET Wait...what's the deal with Kingmaker? I just picked it up the other day on the winter sale, and haven't tried it yet.

Drake 2020-12-29 16:46:02 ET Kingmaker is a /huge/ game, about 150-200 hours to get almost everything. They released too early and they had some serious bugs. 70+ hour games that game over'd because the player didn't hit hidden checkpoints. Lars, I agree. Honestly, I get the appeal of Apple products but I just can't. Games will never be programmed on anything other than Windows and just won't run as well for the vast majority of games. It's not a hardware issue either, it's just not programmed to run well on them. Honestly, I'd be running some flavor of Linux if it wasn't for PC gaming. Screen realestate is king. Honestly, it might be worth just getting a secondary monitor and using your USB-C to manage that with all your perepherals. I don't know if you do everything with it in your lap or on a desk but it's always an option to set up some sort of docking station. To be fair, I'd just wait for the second generation of Apple chips. I'm sure they are going to do a huge generational leap just like NVidia did with RTX graphics cards. It's not worth paying the early adopter tax.

turboskanker 2020-12-29 17:37:13 ET probably true. and well i do most of my work from my lap or a coffee shop (or park lately when coffee shops still remain closed) so it's just easier to have the bigger screen on the macbook itself. though i do have a monitor at home i can plug into, and one day when i actually have money again i would consider springing for one of apple's monitors since, especially as a designer, their color accuracy has always been 2nd to none. as for games, meh, steam is on everything now including macOS and while the library certainly isn't as huge as it is for PC, there's enough (and always more) being developed for mac to make it enough for me. for everything else i'd just rather have an xbox. but that's just me. i can see the appeal of PC gaming if that's what you're into - after so many years using, building, and endlessly fixing PCs early on in my career, for what i do they're just too much of a headache otherwise. also in my experience macs are actually better for emulation of older games / consoles than PCs, which is most of what i do with gaming on a computer these days - everything else i'd rather just play on console. speaking of old consoles and linux, apparently there's a version of linux that runs on nintendo 64 now. linux is amazing. lol

Drake 2020-12-29 20:50:23 ET I'm garbage with a controller. I guess if I invested time into it but I'm just way more comfortable with a m+kb.

turboskanker 2020-12-29 23:51:51 ET yeah i'm sure to some extent it comes down to what you grew up with and you're used to. for me it's basically the opposite - even if i'm playing a game on my mac, i'm likely to plug in a logitech gamepad to use instead of the keyboard. though, now that i think of it, i did beat both portal and portal 2 on a mac with just a keyboard and trackpad 🤷‍♂️ so there are exceptions, i guess.

diverse beauty 2021-01-05 21:08:35 ET Love it for reasons yet unknown, but still, none the less. I LOVE it. It may be my love/hate relationship with mopeds, but it brought a smile to ma' face! LOL Hope all is well! :)

diverse beauty 2021-01-05 21:11:05 ET In all seriousness; that sucks for the owner of this "magnificent' mobile device.

turboskanker 2021-01-05 22:43:40 ET oh it's one of those scooter share scooters so no one owns it. they get vandalized all the time cause they're run by pretty shitty gig economy companies that pay contract workers next-to-nothing with zero benefits to upkeep the damn things, similar to uber, lyft, etc. and many locals here aren't really fans of the sort of exploitive business model, or the fact that they clog up the sidewalks for no good reason. at any rate, glad to inspire (;

cyb0rg 2021-01-07 19:56:02 ET I was walking through an urban park in CP2077 filled with trash and tents and i was like this is SF as fuck

turboskanker 2021-01-07 21:44:59 ET you found SOMA!

cyb0rg 2021-01-07 23:40:58 ET Soma was a giant shit hole when I was growing up. It’s just returning to its roots yo Downtown too. Used to be way more cracked up that it is now

turboskanker 2021-01-08 00:44:13 ET so i've heard. meh, having lived in seattle, honestly nothing else compares to the absolute hell that city is. the fucking place developed more than every other major city combined in a 5 year timespan and noe has a bigger homeless population than NYC and LA combined. it also has lead in the water and a slew of other infrastructure problems that nowhere this side of detroit has. thanks jeff bezos!

diverse beauty 2021-01-09 22:31:48 ET Oh okay, I understand now! That sucks!

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